MUMBAI: A petition has been filed in the Bombay high court seeking direction to the state government to withdraw geography text books in which Sindh has been replaced in the national anthem with Sindhu. These textbooks were earlier withdrawn following a serious faux pas after Arunachal Pradesh was missing from one of the maps of India. The 16.5 lakhwithdrawn text books had also contained the word Sindhu instead of Sindh.

KOCHI: Uncoupling the institution of marriage from sacred or religious connotations conveniently used to deny women their due, the Kerala high court has ruled that Muslim marriage is primarily a civil contract to legalize sexual intercourse

Policemen refusing to register FIRs will face up to one year in jail with the Centre issuing strict instructions to states to prosecute such cops.

The Home Ministry told the states and Union Territories to clearly instruct all police stations that failure to register FIR on receipt of information about any cognisable offence will invite prosecution of the duty police officer under IPC Section 166A (public servant disobeying law) which will invite imprisonment up to one year.

MUMBAI: A sessions court today deferred till June 24 its order on an appeal filed byBollywood actor Salman Khan against a magistrate’s ruling invoking charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the 2002 hit-run-case involving him.